2023 SSRL/LCLS Users' Meeting

Join us at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory for the 2023 SSRL/LCLS Users' Meeting

2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California USA 

Every year, thousands of scientists from universities, laboratories, and private companies around the world use our cutting-edge research facilities. Their discoveries benefit a wide range of fields, including materials and energy sciences, chemistry, biology, medicine, environmental science, engineering, astronomy, and physics. 

This annual meeting is a unique opportunity to gather together the light source community in a single scientific event that includes numerous presentations in the plenary, poster, and parallel sessions. Participants can learn about current/future facility capabilities and the latest user research and discuss science with colleagues from academia, research laboratories, and industry worldwide.

Come join us for the opportunity to join the following sessions for scientific exchange, discussions, and awards: plenary sessions, keynote talks, award presentations, scientific workshops, poster sessions, town hall discussions, and breakout sessions.

Registration is now closed!

Young Investigator Awards and Presentations:

SSRL William E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award

SSRL Melvin P. Klein Scientific Development Award

SSRL Farrel W. Lytle Award

LCLS Young Investigator Award

LCLS Users’ Recognition Award

Sunday, Sep 24

• Serial Femtosecond Crystallography: a practical introduction (AM)*
  
• Data Analysis at LCLS Workshop (PM)*
• Drop Dispensing System (PM)*
  *Registration for Sunday workshops is now closed.
  

Monday, Sep 25

• Fundamentals at SSRL and LCLS - I & II (AM/PM)
  
• Computational Methods in the Structural Biology (AM)
• Coherent Imaging and Dynamics (AM/PM)
  
• Combining imaging, microscopy and bulk spectroscopy synchrotron-based techniques to interrogate trace elements in complex environmental samples (AM)
• Gas Phase MeV-UED (PM)
  
• X-ray Optics (PM)
  

Tuesday, Sep 26

• Exploring ultrafast surface molecular dynamics: Surface Science Instrument on RIX beamline (AM)
  
• TXI 1 - Forward Scattering (AM)
• Application of DFT Methods towards the Understanding of X-ray Spectroscopy Data (AM)
  
• Multi-modal XRF Imaging to Understand Coupled Processes in Biological, Geochemical, and Environmental Systems (AM/PM)
  
• Time Resolved Serial Femtosecond Crystallography (PM)
• Autonomous Experimentation (PM)
• First tender X-ray spectroscopy experiments at TXI (PM)
  
• Momentum Microscope at qRIXS (PM)

Wednesday, Sep 27

• Plenary Session (AM/PM)
• Poster Session and LCLS-II First Light Reception (PM)
• Structural Tools and Infrastructures for Rapid Responses in Future Biological Threats (PM)

Thursday, Sep 28

• Plenary Session - Award Presentations (AM)
• Publishing Big XFEL datasets (PM)
  
• Campaign Updates (PM)
• LCLS laser capabilities and development directions (PM)
• Application of Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) in Structural Biology and Biophysics (PM)

Friday, Sep 29

• MEC Science and IFE Basic Research at LCLS part I & II (AM/PM))
• Metals in Structural Biology I & II (AM/PM))
• Soft X-ray Multipulse Multicolor Nonlinear Experiments in Solution - Experimental and Theoretical Opportunities (AM)
  
• Advanced X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) to Probe Material Interfaces at Energy-Environment Nexus (AM)
  
• Studies of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage using Synchrotron X-ray Probes (PM)
• New Data Stream for LCLS-II (AM)

As one of 17 Department of Energy national labs, SLAC pushes the frontiers of human knowledge and drives discoveries that benefit humankind. We invent the tools that make those discoveries possible and share them with scientists all over the world.

SSRL provides extremely bright X-rays for a wide range of experiments that probe matter down to the scale of atoms and molecules. These studies target advances in energy production, human health, environmental cleanup, nanotechnology, novel materials and information technology, among other areas.

LCLS produces ultrafast pulses of X-ray laser light a billion times brighter than any previous X-ray source, allowing researchers to freeze the motions of atoms and molecules and string those images together to make stop-motion movies.

SLAC is operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. 
The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.